Vegetable butter capable of being spread.



I PAUL KOLESOH, OF ST UTTGART, GERMANY.

VEGETABLE BUTTER CAPABLE or BEING SPREAD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan, 26, 1909;

Application filed August 29, 1907. Serial No. 390,682.

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I,'PAUL KOLESCH, a citizen of the German Empire, residing at Stuttgart, in the German Em ire, have invented a new and useful Vegetab e Butter Ca able of Being Spread; and I do hereby dec are the following to be a full, clear, and exact descri tion of the same.

egetable butter is, as is well lmown, made from various oils, such as cocoanut oil and palm oil, or thelike, by refining the same.

The result of the processes hitherto employed is, as is well known, a tallow product, which cannot be s read. Vegetable butter has, therefore, not been a commercial success as a butter substitute, to the extent desired.

Now this invention has for its object a vegetable butter, which immaterially as to the manner in which it is made, is capable of being s ead, like ordinary butter, on bread, or the ike, without further difficulty.

The method or rocess consists of the fol lowing:-The oil aving been subjected to the action of heat, is allowed to cool, andjust at the critical temperature (at which it passes from the fluid to the solidcondition) there is added thereto 7% to 9% of refined spirit-496%). The two. constituents are intimately united by stirring, and there results therefrom a new commercial product, namely, a permanently fixed plastic vegetable butter, that will maintain its plastic spreadable quality, independent of fluctuatlons of temperature an for practically an unlimited period. If desired, of ground nut-oil can be added during the stirring. It is fair to assume that'by the addition of a fixed small amount of alcohol (7% to 9%) at a certain fixed temperature (the critical), there is formed a definite chemical compound (or mixture, at least) of the two substances, having such qualities that it will remain permanently suitable .for use as an article of food.

I declare that. what I claim is 1. The process vof manufacturing a ormanently plastic vegetable butter, w 'ch consists in subjecting cocoanut oil, palm oil, and the like, to the action of heat, allowing the same to cool, adding to the mixture at the temperature at which it assumes the solid state about 7% to 9% of refined alcohol, and thoroughly stirring the resulting compound.

2. The process of manufacturing a ermanently plastic vegetable butter, whic consists in adding, at the critical temperature, to cocoanut oil, alm oil, and the ike, 7% to 9% of refined a cohol, and intimately mixing the alcohol with the fatty constituents.

3. The process of manufacturing perma nently plastic vegetable butter, which consists in subjecting refined vegetable oil, at the critical tem erature, to the action of refined alcohol, an intimatel the fatty constituents and the alco 01.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a permanently plastic vegetable butter com osed of a mixture of refined vegetable o' and alcohol.

5. A permanently plastic'vegetable butter com osed of refined cocoanut oil to which has een added 7% to 9% of refined alcohol.

6. A soft vegetable butter ca able of being readily spread and consisting or a permanent mixture of refined vegetable oil, refined spirit 2 and ground nut oil.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses. PAUL KOLESCH. Witnesses:

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